he had found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and
bought it"? Is your heart singing

"I've found the pearl of greatest price,
My heart doth sing for joy;
And sing I must for Christ is mine!
Christ shall my song employ!"

A Chinese convert told one of the missionaries that he happened to take up
a Testament which had been sold to the people of the house by a
colporteur, but they could not see the meaning of it, so they laid it on
one side. "But," he went on to say, "from the moment my eyes lighted upon
it, I was greatly attracted by it. So I read and kept on reading till the
meaning dawned upon me, and then," he added with a beaming face, "I found
the Pearl of Great Price."

This reminds me of that strange story of a very valuable pearl necklace
worth L117,000 which was lost about a year ago. It was sent by post from
Paris to London when it suddenly disappeared and no one knew what had
become of it. A very large reward was offered to any one who found it.

But now comes the wonderful part of the story. One morning, a man of the
name of Horne was on his way to the factory where he was employed when he
saw a large match-box lying in the gutter in St. Paul's Road, near London.
He picked it up and put it in his pocket. Presently he went into a public-
house to have a glass of beer and there he met two of his mates. He took
the match-box out of his pocket, pushed it open, and seeing it was filled
with what he thought were white beads or marbles, he said to them, "What
do you think of these, I've just picked them up?" "Oh! they're no good,"
replied one of the men, "throw them away." However, Horne decided to take